{"id":43605,"date":"2025-04-23T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43605\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:40:11","slug":"rory-mcilroy-has-incredible-lead-in-race-for-ryder-cup-after-masters-win-as-top-six-europe-rankings-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43605\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has incredible lead in race for Ryder Cup after Masters win as top six Europe rankings revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

RORY McILROY’S victory at the Masters has given him a stunning lead in the race for a spot in the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

The Northern Irishman is set to compete once again for Team Europe as they look to retain their crown at the Bethpage Black Course in New York from September 26-28.<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy is well clear at the top of the Team Europe rankingsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Luke Donald<\/a>‘s side will be made up of 12 players, with six guaranteeing their spot through the ranking system and the other six getting chosen by the team captain.<\/p>\n

Ranking points are handed out to players based on their performances at PGA Tour<\/a> events and the four majors.<\/p>\n

McIlroy<\/a>‘s stunning 2025 has already seen him clinch the Players Championship as well as the Green Jacket at Augusta.<\/p>\n

And he has all-but booked his spot at the Masters<\/a> after picking up a whopping 2,863.75 points.<\/p>\n

It puts McIlroy 1,873.20 clear at the top of the table.<\/p>\n

Tyrrell Hatton is in second with 990.55 and Justin Rose<\/a>‘s runner-up spot at the Masters sees him in third with 870.04.<\/p>\n

Rasmus Hojgaard, Shane Lowry and Ludvig Aberg<\/a> complete the current top six.<\/p>\n

But stars like Tommy Fleetwood, Thomas Detry and Matt Wallace are hot on their heels.<\/p>\n

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Viktor Hovland and Robert\u00a0MacIntyre were part of the squad that won the Ryder Cup<\/a> for Europe in 2023 and they sit 12th and 13th respectively.<\/p>\n

John Rahm<\/a> was also previously in the side and will seemingly have to settle for being one of Donald’s picks.<\/p>\n

Footage of emotional Rory McIlroy become’s internet’s biggest meme<\/p>\n

The Spaniard is now part of LIV Golf and he therefore languishes in 26th place due to him no longer playing in PGA Tour competitions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the current American top six is Scottie Scheffler<\/a>, Xander\u00a0Schauffele, Collin\u00a0Morikawa, Bryson\u00a0DeChambeau, Russell\u00a0Henley and Justin Thomas. <\/p>\n

Players have up until the end of the BMW Championship on August 17 to pick up ranking points for the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RORY McILROY’S victory at the Masters has given him a stunning lead in the race for a spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,7640,4298,4287,4321,12025,79,4297,4319,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-43605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-justin-rose","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-ryder-cup","13":"tag-section-sportgolf","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-masters","16":"tag-tyrrell-hatton","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114386857091171683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}